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by g0v 10y ago
Very interesting points! Thank you for that counter :) And yes, Taleb has shown to be a very confident writer...
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by g0v 10y ago
I just so happen to be currently reading about this in The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. He says: "From predator-prey models (the so-called Lotka-Volterra type of population dynamics), I knew that populations experience [potentially high
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by g0v 10y ago
Something that I've been learning lately is that balance is vital to survival. I'm a student, and I had a burnout a couple months ago. Thankfully, I was able to learn important things about myself, namely certain limits of mine (a
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by g0v 11y ago
I think there is absolutely a place and time for writing the way you talk and that the same goes for writing formally. The discussion of when and where for either case is a topic in and of itself.
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by g0v 11y ago
We plebs are fully aware that the odds are stacked against us. I don't expect it to change soon, if ever. And if anything, it just makes us harder than our marshmallow-like upper-class counterparts. Yeah, I want to be successful and ma
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by g0v 11y ago
I'm in the same boat, It's really been a boon for self-improvement. There is a lot of value in being your own harshest critic.
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by g0v 11y ago
I bought the pro version a couple months ago and I'm sure it's already paid for itself. In the past I couldn't even have games installed on my computer for fear of getting sucked in for hours on end. Now I don't have to
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by g0v 11y ago
I'm just another chronic procrastinator and from what I've experienced there is no single "cure". Here's where I stand in trying to solve my own procrastination problems: - Removed myself from things that enable pro
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by g0v 11y ago
I'm a vet with a security clearance. When I heard about the breach at OPM I obviously wasn't happy but figured there was not much to do about it. I just tell myself that there's not much point in worrying about something you
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by g0v 11y ago
I work on an Ubuntu vm, the only reason I use Windows, really, is for games and likely just out of habit. I don't think it will be much longer until I actually make the switch.
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by g0v 11y ago
I recently switched from Bitdefender to AVG, and like you just uninstalled AVG. I'm not sure where to go from here.
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by g0v 11y ago
This. At the end of the day it's up to you to find/make the time to balance your life out. I've been learning a lot lately about balance, it's more important than I used to think. FIND BALANCE!
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by g0v 11y ago
That is common in Japan among jobs from office workers to mechanics. I was stationed there for some years and when we were in port the Japanese workers on the base would all line up outside their offices, sometimes turn on a little workout
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by g0v 11y ago
I'm in the same boat man. We just need a little tamper-proof dispenser that only allows us a certain amount for a given period of time. Like you, I'm better off without it. But I do miss it.
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by g0v 11y ago
I am one of those college students and actually I have been smoking way too much. I just recently stopped and now I sleep much better, getting up in the morning is way easier, I just have more energy. It's hard for me to have access to
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by g0v 11y ago
Good for him, chase your dreams.
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by g0v 11y ago
Well, good to know. I guess I'm not familiar with how things can be done. Thanks for the heads up.
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by g0v 11y ago
I feel as though both parties could have handled that better. Contacting a company about a security vulnerability via a tweet, there must be a better way about that. And the company's response seemed pretty disproportionate to me. Mayb
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by g0v 11y ago
All this just makes me sick and angry. I wonder if congress will ever represent the people.
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by g0v 11y ago
When I'm wrestling with a problem I'll sometimes go outside and pace back and forth in my yard. Pacing has been a habit of mine since I was a kid, I remember doing it one time my mom told me "stop pacing, you're making m
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by g0v 11y ago
Never give up. I have a poster on the wall behind my monitors of the 5th Solvay Congress in Brussels. It has many of the greats including Planck, Curie, Lorentz, Einstein, Schrodinger, just to name a few. There are times when, for example,
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by g0v 12y ago
When I was in high school I was always fascinated by the stories I'd hear about hackers, I was just a lowly gamer back then. I always told myself something along the lines of "these people have been doing this since they were kids
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by g0v 12y ago
Hearing this from someone like yourself brings me great joy... In 2011 after my time in the military was through I made a decision to get into infosec. I didn't know how to code, had never been to college, and only had IT knowledge fro
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by g0v 12y ago
Thank you for the link, I think this will help a good deal.
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by g0v 12y ago
I've been interested in trying LSD since my friend offered but am hesitant because I don't know how it will interact with my medication (SSRIs). On a side note, I do like to smoke weed while I'm studying/coding. Things t
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by g0v 12y ago
I'm reading this article and Sratfor says: "It is worth briefly explaining why Stratfor fixates on navigable rivers as opposed to coastlines. First, navigable rivers by definition service twice the land area of a coastline (rivers
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by g0v 12y ago
I just feel sick when I think of how helpless I am as a citizen while I watch my government's officials get away with shit like this. Yeah, I can sign petitions, vote, contact my congressman, but I always have the feeling of someone th
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by g0v 12y ago
You are your own worst enemy. [edit] After reading my post again it seems pretty scatter-brained, I guess that's appropriate in some way. Back in 2011 I decided that I would teach myself all this great computer science stuff and work i
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by g0v 12y ago
From the Wartard post: "but the Chinese did manage to sneak a diesel powered sub into the middle of a carrier group during USN exercises off Taiwan in 2006." I was stationed in Japan when I was in the Navy and just missed this lit

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